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The Fractal Life: Harnessing Social for Authentic, Agile Living

These are the slides for the keynote I shared at the LinkedIn User Experience Design All Hands meeting on July 11, 2014. The "story" here is my own life, looking at how my risk-taking and use of social media have empowered me to find an authentic life. Is this a lesson to learn from as we ponder the relevance gap between formal and information learning in the U.S. today? As social becomes more integral to the workplace, can/should educators embrace social technologies to foster more authentic living in their students' lives?

The Fractal Life: Harnessing Social for Authentic, Agile Living

1.
frac·tal
/ˈfraktəl/
noun
!
1. a curve or geometric ﬁgure, each part of which has the same
statistical character as the whole. Fractals are useful in modeling
structures (such as eroded coastlines or snowﬂakes) in which
similar patterns recur at progressively smaller scales, and in
describing partly random or chaotic phenomena such as crystal
growth, ﬂuid turbulence, and galaxy formation.
Fractal

41.
n=49 Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012
Learning Out Loud Student Survey % Strongly Agreed/Agreed
If you had completed an online class before this
one, was this the ﬁrst time you have been required
to participate in voice?
84%
Communicating with online voice/video is an
important 21st century skill. 85%
I noticed an improvement in my ability to speak
more clearly in the voice/video comments. 73%
The voice activities made me feel like I was part
of a group. 92%
Slide by Michelle Pacansky-Brock

50.
This mindset
will not
change our
future.
Slide by Michelle Pacansky-Brock

51.
“In a world where value
is shifting rapidly
from things to knowledge,
knowledge workers
are the new means of production.
And it follows that
the social network
is the new production line.”
-Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM
Slide by Michelle Pacansky-Brock